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February 2017

February 24, 2017

Canonical Criticism of the Book of Mormon?

The following is a brief response to Michael Austin's post "Canon as Context: Insights from...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Diachronic or Synchronic? A Response to Nicholas J. Frederick

Introduction The fact that New Testament (NT) language appears throughout the Book of Mormon (BM)...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

Korihor and the Defense of Secularism

Generally, Korihor is understood as a kind of anachronistic representation of secularism by many modern...

August 08, 2013

Exploring the Iconic Nature of the Book of Mormon: Part IIb – The Fluid Nature of the Text of the Book of Mormon

I here continue my series of posts dealing with the iconic nature of the Book...

March 2013

March 06, 2013

The 2013 Adjustments to the Book of Mormon: Accuracy Delayed

This post is written by guest contributor, Grant Hardy. It is a weighty responsibility to...

March 05, 2013

Approaching Antiquity: BYU Church History Symposium 2013

In case you haven't seen it, take a break from Wheat and Tares Apologizing and...

September 2012

September 03, 2012

Quick and Powerful

And so another Labor Day comes, bringing the end to summer. May the next summer...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

Black and White

As I have casually wandered around the BoM this summer looking at how it uses...

August 13, 2012

Giant Horror Bug Replaced!!!

When last we looked in on how the BoM used something of Paul’s from First...

August 10, 2012

Giant Horror Bug Gone Missing!!!

This is one of those instances of intertextuality where what’s interesting is what’s missing. At...

August 07, 2012

Gall of Bitterness

This expression, which seems pretty strange to moderns, is used a surprising number of times...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

Seal You His

Closing out the fifth chapter of Mosiah is an exhortation to righteous living followed by...

July 12, 2012

Author and Finisher

Tucked away near the end of the BoM is a description of Christ as “the...

July 11, 2012

The Gender of “Church” in the BoM

I still have a “church” itch as the idea is found in the BoM. So...

July 09, 2012

Willing to Submit in All Things

One the more striking passages from the BoM is the natural man pericope in Mosiah...

July 06, 2012

The Joy of the Saints

The Book of Enos opens like this: “ Behold, I went to hunt beasts in...

July 05, 2012

Evil Eschatological Mothers

Heh. Back to work, are you? And not really in the mood, perhaps? Yeah. It...

February 2012

February 17, 2012

“Have You Been Saved?”

To oversimplify things a bit, Mormon notions of salvation are more consistent with Paul, while...

February 02, 2012

Apologetics Into Doctrine: Romney’s Impact

It appears that Andrew Sullivan published something on Mormons yesterday. How do I know this...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

Christianity 101, Book of Mormon Style 3

So in this last week we, that is me and the 17-18 year old gentlemen...

January 20, 2012

If the Book of Mormon is dull, the New Testament is duller

One recent, sympathetic critic called the Book of Mormon "dull." This is not a new...

January 10, 2012

Christianity 101, BoM Style 2

Another little doorway into Christianity lies, I think, in the second of the three enumerated...

January 07, 2012

Christianity 101, BoM Style

Tis the start of the New Year, and therefore the start of a new lesson...

January 06, 2012

“Every wo/man that striveth for mastery”: Thinking About LDS Scripture Mastery (A New Series of Posts)

**I wish I could say that my recent lack of posts at FPR has been...

January 05, 2011

The Dumbing Down of Mormon Books, Made Easy!

A recent book review of Eric Shuster and Charles Sale's The Biblical Roots of Mormonism describes...

November 2009

November 29, 2009

Is Christ in the Old Testament?

What if the answer is no? What if the authors who produced the OT have...

August 2009

August 12, 2009

Who Lectures on the Book of Mormon?

I'm a big fan of The Teaching Company. They have lots of good stuff on...

February 2009

February 11, 2009

King Benjamin Killed God

Jesus set up an impossible paradox when he explained that the two great commandments are...

January 2009

January 19, 2009

An American Prophet

Mormons are not the only prophetic tradition in America. The African American spiritual community also...

November 2008

November 10, 2008

Translation Styles and Book of Mormon Apologetics and Exegesis

For the past couple of days I have been reading An Ancient American Setting for...

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